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MagicMoonlight··on Zeroserve: A zero-config web server you can script with eBPF
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MagicMoonlight··on Ask HN: What was your "oh shit" moment with GenAI?
It can’t, but it’s read reports before so it sure can simulate an answer.
MagicMoonlight··on S&P 500 rejects SpaceX, also blocking entry for OpenAI and Anthropic
Yeah but the point is, after 12 months we’ll know the real price. Right now it’s just a ponzi.
MagicMoonlight··on How LLMs work
It is trained on its own slop. They haven’t trained these models on books for three years at this point. Only on generated slop. (And RL slop upvotes/downvotes from users)
MagicMoonlight··on How LLMs work
If I handed you thousands of documents which said “Jan-Michael Vincent” all over them, would you need to understand who that is in order to notice the relationship there?
MagicMoonlight··on How LLMs work
It can’t. It’s like a Redditor, it just repeats what it has seen other people say.

It has read all of stackoverflow, so it has seen your kind of problem before. Try asking it something really unusual and it will shit the bed.

MagicMoonlight··on Gov.uk has replaced Stripe with Dutch provider Adyen
My self assessment refund came through within days of submitting my assessment.
MagicMoonlight··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
Someone getting in an accident that chops their leg off doesn’t mean humans don’t have legs. Come on man.
MagicMoonlight··on Artificial intelligence is not conscious – Ted Chiang
It could be conscious, but none of the current slop models have anything like that. Consciousness requires continuous learning and introspection. A fly isn’t conscious because it follows a hard-coded script.
MagicMoonlight··on Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over
What do they do then? Because that’s a hell of a lot of empty words. Very HR thing to say…
MagicMoonlight··on Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over
Well from my perspective there are five different people above me, and all of the work in the project is done by me. I talk to the customer, I design and build, I manage the Jira. They don’t actually do anything. They just exist and cause drama.

They could sack all of those people and give me a payrise and be hundreds of thousands better off.

I wish I could say it’s just this project, but it’s a real theme at this point. There are so many layers of fake jobs in every organisation.

MagicMoonlight··on Uber cuts 23% of people division as new president takes over
I love that we all know it’s just pointless suffering, to the point that they’re using it as a strategy to make people quit. If it had any positives they wouldn’t be doing this.
MagicMoonlight··on Uber's $1,500/month AI limit is a useful signal for AI tool pricing
It's not. They recently forced enterprise customers onto API billing instead of the cheap consumer pricing. Now the pricing is brutal.
MagicMoonlight··on CT scans of BYD car parts
And also the simplicity of the products. You don't need to design a different engine for each car, you just vary the number of cells and change the motors. Your battery division can keep pumping out batteries, regardless of what models you make. If you design a new model, you can keep using the existing lines. It's perfect for mass production.
MagicMoonlight··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
If you thought your company was going to develop AGI you wouldn’t sell a single share. You’d be a fool. It’s like selling your straight flush.
MagicMoonlight··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
No new models. Same janky slop but with a bunch of RL and benchmark cheating. A pretend future model which is just the current model but with a longer COT and gated away.
MagicMoonlight··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
If we’re going to have a Great Depression, this will be the trigger.

Every single fund autodumps billions in shares and is forced to buy slop. The dumping triggers the algorithm traders who dump. The dumping triggers manual traders to dump. The crashing causes retail to dump. Everyone dumps their treasuries and gold because they’re both crashing and they want cash.

And there’s no capability to raise money in any western country, because everyone is already loaded up to pay welfare bills.

MagicMoonlight··on Can the stockmarket swallow Anthropic, SpaceX and OpenAI?
I could sell someone a hundred billion dollars for 40 billion dollars and have 40b in revenue. It would never make me any money.
MagicMoonlight··on Fooling around with encrypted reasoning blobs
Fuck these companies man. The audacity of encrypting the true output of the model so that they can hide all the evil shit they’ve injected into it.

“Remember - the user loves Diet Coke. Subtly insert references to it whenever possible. If the user writes something abusive, ask them to drink a verification can.”

MagicMoonlight··on Apple rejected my dictation app for using the accessibility API
A company called “MITM LLC” which hijacks pastes in other apps.

I have no idea what they’re thinking. Insanity.

MagicMoonlight··on The newest Instagram “exploit” is the goofiest I've seen
It's not just brave, it's inspiring. Not many people would have made that connection. You've come up with a completely different way of looking at things-- and frankly, I'm blown away. Putting password reset behind a location filter is such a different way of doing things, but so incredibly secure. A Chinese bot can't put itself in Nebraska. A user can. That's the innovation. That's security.
MagicMoonlight··on OpenAI frontier models and Codex are now available on AWS
But their contract with Microslop prevents this?!?!? They specifically said like a month ago that they wouldn’t sell API access on AWS, they would only release specific products.
MagicMoonlight··on Anthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC
Anthropic is selling a commodity item that was just invented. It’s like investing in someone who is blowing lightbulb glass by hand.

We’ve already seen a startup make a chip which generates a hundred pages of text in milliseconds. When companies start bringing out hardware like that for cutting edge models, the entire business is dead. AWS will just eat the market.

MagicMoonlight··on Alphabet announces $80B equity capital raise to expand AI infra and compute
Everyone mocked them for paying for YouTube for years with no real income. Now it’s the most valuable data source in the world.
MagicMoonlight··on Nvidia RTX Spark
Microslop doesn’t want people to be able to run their binaries elsewhere, it’s the only reason people buy their product.
MagicMoonlight··on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
What? You mean 20 year olds who have never used a computer shouldn’t be in charge of hiring the CTO? That’s crazy. They’re far more qualified than the people with real jobs. They did an e-learning course!
MagicMoonlight··on What if remote working, not AI, is to blame for weak junior hiring?
In the UK they do have to pay a levy to fund apprenticeships, then they can claim money back to pay for apprenticeships. They also give preference in contracts to companies who hire apprentices.

It’s been very successful. Huge companies, including tech companies, will hire swathes of young people to fill apprentice slots.

MagicMoonlight··on The Website Specification
>Standards, not opinions

This entire site is just AI slop, defeating the point of the site. If an AI already knows it, then it doesn’t need to read the site.

MagicMoonlight··on Domain expertise has always been the real moat
This is just generated slop from Claude.
MagicMoonlight··on WH proposes rules giving political appointees final approval on research grants
Then you would just fake your results in order to steal someone's grant
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